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Activist and author Dorothy Canfield Fisher at her desk.

A Christmas Amnesty A Christmas Amnesty

This article, from the December 14, 1946, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation’s Digital Archive.

Dec 21, 2004 / Feature / Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Howard’s End Howard’s End

Martin Scorsese's The Aviator overlays three legends, all of them made of celluloid.

Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Versed in Adventure Versed in Adventure

Few modern poets served so long an apprenticeship as Basil Bunting, none had so adventurous a life and few poets' lives have produced such lasting rewards.

Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt

An Arab Surrealist An Arab Surrealist

The Springs of Adonis (now also known as the River Ibrahim) run through the Byblos region of Lebanon down through steep gorges to the Mediterranean.

Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Irwin

Red Sluts, Blue Sluts Red Sluts, Blue Sluts

The Golden Girls and Sex and the City are available on DVD. Desperate Housewives airs Sundays at 9 pm EST on ABC.

Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein

The Illusion of Inclusion The Illusion of Inclusion

In 1958 John Ashbery sailed for Paris to gather materials for a thesis he intended to write about Raymond Roussel, who at the time was an all-but-forgotten French poet, playwrigh...

Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Other Africans The Other Africans

When V.S.

Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Leela Jacinto

Is That All There Is? Is That All There Is?

It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.

Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

Subcontinental Homesick Blues Subcontinental Homesick Blues

Nearly twenty years ago, in a village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a young woman called Roop Kanwar was burned to death at her husband's funeral pyre.

Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb

Operation Self-Destruction Operation Self-Destruction

This article, from the August 26, 1968, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on...

Dec 8, 2004 / Feature / Karl M. Purnell

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